⁷ He keeps the person of the upright; he is a buckler to those that walk perfectly,

⁸ keeping the paths of judgment and the way of his merciful ones.

⁹ Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity, yea, every good path.

¹⁰ ¶ When wisdom enters into thine heart and knowledge is sweet unto thy soul,

¹¹ discretion shall preserve thee, intelligence shall keep thee

¹² to deliver thee from the evil way, from the man that speaks perversion,

¹³ who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil and delight in wicked perversion,

¹⁵ whose ways are crooked, and they are crooked in their paths;

¹⁶ to deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,

¹⁷ who forsakes the prince of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

¹⁸ Therefore her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

¹⁹ None that go unto her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life.

²⁰ That thou may walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous.

²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

²² But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

²⁰ ¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother:

²¹ Bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck.

²² When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

²³ For the commandment is fire, and the law is light; and reproofs of chastening are the way of life,

²⁴ to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

7 ¶ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

² Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers; write them upon the tablet of thine heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁵ That they may keep thee from the woman belonging to someone else, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

¹⁹ ¶ In the multitude of words there is no lack of rebellion, but he that refrains his lips is wise.

³ ¶ In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.